Thursday, July 02, 2009

We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth's climate. The stakes are high for us and our children. Everyone should take part in the effort, and HOME has been conceived to take a message of mobilization out to every human being. For this purpose, HOME needs to be free. A patron, the PPR Group, made this possible. EuropaCorp, the distributor, also pledged not to make any profit because Home is a non-profit film. HOME has been made for you : share it! And act for the planet.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Client brief and requirements gathering - I enjoy client interaction and being social; this is me on youtube

Brainstorming and ideas generation - I’ve written a book on inventions, I blog about cutting edge services and products (viewmyblog.com). I definitely have a passion for innovation. I also Project Managed an online platform that automatically creates and runs hundreds of sites with zero day-to-day management.

In that process I’m normally version controlling all files, sticking to a naming convention, making sure everything is trackable and within the scope, budget, ensuring quality, providing highlight reports to stakeholders and account teams, looking to mitigate risks, assigning ownership... updating project briefs and plans.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Now i'm slightly annoyed... another of my ideas released live before me :(tineye image search engine (similar solution to what i had in mind, oh well, good for them... i think it's a great idea).Here's a concept sketch I did last year but even a few years back I had created a prototype process of matching image retrieval.. contacted potential developers, tested tons of apps.1. Search1.1. Image upload (file text field)1.2. Image upload (button)1.2.1. * Process of matching image retrieval1.2.1.1. Search results1.2.1.2. Web URLs and image thumbnails (user clicks on thumbnails or links to see where the similar image can be found)...p.s. With a little funding I could make that work still.... tineye need some competition, perhaps later in the year if I'm free.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Yes I think many of the ...'get this cause you'll be saving the planet'... marketing campaigns are a load of bull

Good Energy’s commitment to its ethical values as well as to promoting and developing renewable energy in the UK has been independently accredited by the Ethical Company Organisation over the past three years. We have once again been awarded Ethical Company Status for 2009, scoring the maximum 100 points. www.goodenergy.co.uk

I know I blowing my own trumpet a little but it'd be good if more people switched. I remember meeting the Chairman of a big Energy company last year who astounded me by trying to convice me that it was impossible to get energy from waves! I mean, it's not like I'm some hippee eco warrior or something but that chap was really a little arroagant and stupid. (FYI: I'm working on a new wave power patent... anyone care to invest :)

Scam letter from Community Trade Mark Filing Service, 17 - 19 Fenwick Street, Liverpool, L2 7LSIf you've also got a letter from Community Trade Mark Filing Service then ignore it or report it. It's not from the Patent Office and you don't need to pay them. (I did call the Patent Office and they have hundreds of complaints already but are not yet taking any action.)They basically get all the Patent Office customer details and send letters to them trying to make it look like you need to pay them. If like me you want to move things on, you can report them to trading standards.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

What google doesn't want you to know.There's a new type of knowledge based search engine.Alpha is Due to be released sometime in May '09. (Not live yet)

Other super geek research I was looking at: (Evolutionary Neurocontrol,Genetic algorithm,How the Genetic Algorithm Works). My aim in this space is to try to create some software that can understand meaning in Language (I need lots of dev help). There are other areas which I think if combined would produce advanced results like metamorphic code ... is code that can reprogram itself(certainly gets the imagination going).Why is GA of interest, well, for example, a genetic algorithm developed jointly by engineers from General Electric and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute produced a high-performance jet engine turbine design that was three times better than a human-designed configuration and 50% better than a configuration designed by an expert system by successfully navigating a solution space containing more than 10387 possibilities. Conventional methods for designing such turbines are a central part of engineering projects that can take up to five years and cost over $2 billion; the genetic algorithm discovered this solution after two days on a typical engineering desktop workstation (Holland 1992, p.72). Source extract from talkorigins

Friday, May 08, 2009

If you're an early bird and managed to get an HTC Magic from vodafone when they got released this week in the UK, you might be wondering how to import your contacts from your old phone.

Well if you don't already have all your contacts on google , that's what you need to do and here are some links to help you do that.

Why post this, well:HTC don't have sync details on their siteGoogle don't have a mac to google contacts syncVodafone don't generally have any tech details so why ask

1: Get a sync app, i suggest spanning sync, another is fruux (come google VCs just make an offer and bye them).2: Read the google blog and note Google Sync Beta for iPhone but not yet for the Magic3: check out the HTC site is you like4: note that not all androids are yet covered by google mobile

5: (optional) download tons of crazy apps like the metal detector and talking clock and let me know when there's a good speech to text app

As the viewmy.tv brandstation team have created enterprise social network applications we understand that typically the larger the organisation the more perspective is needed to visualise usage and behavior statistics to highlight the big picture and drive business value.

image: relationship between members around activities

By integrating the brandstation User Activity data with Polestar ondemand, you can now get an in-depth understanding of the behavior and participation on your social network. For example you might want to highlight where focused conversations are happening, who is having those conversations, which users have the strongest relationships or predict what activities will be the most popular amongst different users.

image: event search with member trends

Integrating brandstation with SAP BusinessObjects Polestar means you now have simple, rapid analytical power to provide immediate answers to business questions. You can use keyword searches to explore information in business intelligence, problem solving and communications.

The real time nature of social networking presents a problem in understanding how business processes are solved. So far this has remained untouched by social network applications. With Polestar we’re now able to mashup data from disparate data tables of social network user behavior into a new fluid and rich interface, representing member engagement activity and conversation participation. Further, we’re able to drill into specific topics and with date/time stamping to find emerging trends.

image: visualise contribution of tagged content and user activity

Possible usage scenarios:Wanting to know which people are likely to be the most active contributors around a specific topic and to engage and participate in conversation.

image: which are the most active members

The viewmy.tv brandstation social network platform also allows you to select specific activities and topic areas to further focus on active members in those areas.

image: contribution of activity tagged topics

What are the most used interaction methods and social network site features by people in the network to know what to promote for highest adoption in your network.

image: most popular activities

The viewmy.tv platform called "brandstation" has user activity reports which include:Username – unique for person identificationUser activity – currently covering these functions: created a blog post, updated a blog post, created an event, updated an event, logged in, logged out, wrote a comment on a blog, wrote video comment, updated their status, updated their profile, joined a Team, left a team, accepted an event, declined an event, added a friend, uploaded a File, created a new team, updated a team, added a new forum topic, added a new forum reply, updated a new forum topic, updated a new forum reply, added a new RSS feed, updated an RSS feed, added a new bookmark, updated a bookmark, added a new video, updated a videoDate and time – reference to specific localised regionParticipation points – points attributed to user activity where the point rules are defined by the site ownerRelationship – indicates the other users who have also made a contribution to the conversationSite – indicates the social network site where the user activity was recordedTags – based on the submitted content tags or keywords of the related activity item

Thursday, April 23, 2009

We joined infolinks back in October 2008.We found out about Infolinks by actively looking for advertising partners.It was very easy to add infolinks to our initial site, only a few lines of code.No changes were needed on our site to use infolinks, just simply adding the infolinks code.The infolinks earnings have been to our expectations and we are rolling out the ad format to other new sites. When we started using infolinks we had tried other ad networks and formats before but this was pretty much the easiest one to implement and again the easiest way to make money. Payment terms are as expected and fair.Is the Infolinks support responsive? I’m the CTO of a company looking after 150+ sites, some we create for clients and some we run ourselves, can you imagine how many emails / developments / issues I have to deal with everyday! Well I remember our Account Manager and Support at Infolinks, she’s called Sarah. I remember this not because we’ve had to be in contact much but because she has been so super quick and helpful. We now have bigger plans and Infolinks we have a place with us as we go forward. Viewmy.tv develops cutting edge social media technology to create communication and collaboration tools that are easy to access, use, manage and moderate with user-friendly interfaces. The company runs a portfolio of online community based properties including www.viewmy.tv, a free live Internet TV aggregation service (getting over 1 million impressions per month) providing access to thousands of free streaming TV channels from all over the World. Brandstation is the outstanding product of Viewmy.tv Ltd, a London based social media company focusing on innovative social network technology. Brandstation sites are created instantly as soon as you sign up, with no downloads, or installations, or technical experience needed, which makes it easy for anyone to have a live social network and start building a community.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

eigenfactor.org using a relation browser to visualise information. Other visualisation tech to consider include SMILE (Free, Open-Source Data Visualization Web Widgets) and Flare (ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash).

Why do avast not allow iframes in sites with content from another domain?

They cause virus alerts but 99% of the time iframes of course are used to bring information in from other sites! I've contacted avast to see when this, verging on annoying position is being taken... customers were reporting virus alerts on some site and I've just had to remove innocent iframe code!

Either avast change or i suggest to edit preferences / get another AV solution.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Every so often a decision needs to be made relating to political situations.Personally I'm not a fan of any visas or borders.

This week a new TV channel was added for Tibet and we wanted to know if there should be a country for Tibet.

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Tibetan_Administration"Tibet is currently under the administration of the People's Republic of China, a situation that the Central Tibetan Administration considers an illegitimate military occupation. The position of the CTA is that Tibet is a distinct nation with a long history of independence. The current policy of the Dalai Lama, however, is that he does not seek full independence for Tibet, but would accept Tibet as a genuine autonomous region within the People's Republic of China."

Decision: Sorry, no new country on www.viewmy.tv for Tibet unless the Dalai Lama returns to rule.

Monday, March 02, 2009

Sunday, March 01, 2009

Why do these guys always get number 1 hits? You don't need to understand their music you just need to get the vibe. The Prodigy have gone straight to the top of the album chart with new album Invaders Must Die. Their fifth UK number 1 album / one of the fastest selling albums of the year with 100,000 copies sold. (marketing, timing, sound or all 3)

Thursday, February 26, 2009

In 2004 I coordinated a small team of developers who made a mobile application for users to find friends. Our Java application was called IMLocate and worked by cell triangulation and returns the results as txt, including postcode. The other mobile application that we created was called IMChat a simple instant messenger application and we had over 4000 downloads. (I ran out of my own funding so we never really launched IMLocate :(

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

UPDATE: 19th March '09... Google blocked the google map i had previously of the reported Launching Ground in Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province ? ! So I've removed the map and took a screen shot of what showed.

Radio and TV sets in North Korea are pre-tuned to government stations that pump out a steady stream of propaganda. The state has been dubbed the world's worst violator of press freedom by the media rights body Reporters Without Frontiers.

North Korea has a minimal presence on the internet. The web pages of North Korea's official news agency, KCNA ( www.kcna.co.jp ), are hosted by the agency's bureau in Japan.

North Korea is now in preparation for launching 'an experimental communications satellite' Kwangmyongsong-2 at Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground in Hwadae County, North Hamgyong Province.

Note: First North Korean nuclear test on 30 October 2006Human rights organisations estimate at least 200,000 people are held in North Korea’s concentration camps. Other reference: www.korea-dpr.com

I wish North Korean would join the World but beware, NK has zero press freedom and the 50 million living there no nothing of the World other that what they are told from their national news agency.